ACHAEMENID PERSIA IN THE ROMAN LITERATURE: THE IMAGE OF THE «OTHER» AND SPECIFIC FEATURES OF HISTORICAL MEMORY |
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| 2012 |
| HISTORY |
| scientific article | 94(37).07 | ||
| 199-208 | Roman literature, Achaemenids, Ancient Persia, Rome, Persians, image of the "Other", historical memory |
| The article deals with references to the Persian Achaemenid kingdom in Roman literature. The answer to the question about what the Romans knew about the Achaemenid Persia and how they imagined the Persians from Cyrus to Darius III, in what contexts and for what purposes the corresponding figures and examples from the Persian history were mentioned reveals characteristic stereotypes of perception of one nation by another and helps to discover the specificity of Roman cultural and historical memory, which was largely shaped by the information, |
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